Cinema Sunshine Kinuyama & IMAX

Matsuyama-Shi · JapanSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 39/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 122 m² of lit picture. That rests on a single source. Data read 21 September 2026.

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1-888 Kinuyama, Matsuyama-shi, 791-8025 · Open in maps ↗

IQ 39

IMAX in name. Weigh it against the surcharge.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Commercial Laser
Screen: 15.2 m × 8.2 m (125 m²)
Screen shape: 1.85:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 269
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2012
Operator

⚠ LIEMAX — at 15.2m wide this is in the smallest tenth of IMAX screens worldwide (the median is 20 m), showing a 1.90 frame. Good projection can't buy back screen size.

Why IQ 39

Screen size7/38

Projection24/36

Full 1.43 frame8/18

Sound0/8

How big, really?

Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m

1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
2BFI IMAX · 26×20 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
3Cinema Sunshine Kinuyama & IMAX · 15.2×8.2 m · picture 122 m², 2% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

1 double-decker bus fit on this screen (1 across × 1 up · 125 m² total)

What you actually see

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Screen: 125 m²
Picture: 122 m²
Screen used: 98%

Worth travelling for?

Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach

Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.

•Where to next

All of Japan

Elsewhere in Japan

Where this comes from

Single source

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

Screen dimensions: single source
Projector: single source
Operating status: verified open

Sources disagree

The 2021 industry listing records this venue as xenon; we publish laseron the strength of a more recent source. IMAX has converted a great many screens to laser since that listing closed, so the newer record usually wins — but you should know the two don't match.

The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.

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